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Lieutenant Colonel Max Hurlbut,
USA (ret.), "rises from Private to Lieutenant Colonel, starting Army life as a
Military Policeman and retiring as a Special Operations Officer. He tests an
experimental parachute for the British RAF, is arrested as a spy in Egypt, and
sees action on the Thai/Cambodian border. As Advisor to the Special Warfare
Command of the Republic of China Army, he marries the Colonels daughter.
He joins LAPD in the fading
Noir era and is assigned to Hollywood. Ride with him as he responds to the
shooting of one of Mickey Cohens thugs and its resolution half-a-century
later. He views the death, by gunfire, of The Egyptian, a pimp who has his
heart weighted against the Feather of Justice by Osiris, the green- skinned
Ruler of the Dead, and is found wanting.
Max works Hollywood Vice and the
Freeway Car where he encounters Nemesis, who challenges the high-speed
Interceptors to early-AM 150 mph duels. As Captain of the L.A. Police
Motorcycle Drill Team, he leads the Torchbearer into the Coliseum for the 1984
Summer Olympics. He is a Team Leader of the first SWAT teams and in a
Brush-fire (anti-sniper) detail in the Watts Riot of 1965.
Max heads north as Chief of
Police of Kodiak and to police the weirdest town in Alaska. He gives a
Sourdoughs insight into some peculiar incidents in the Land of the Midnight
Sun, such as the Police Chief of Eagle who, in fear of being eaten by wolves
when lost in a storm, lies in a creek to become frozen into a block of ice.
Max becomes City Marshal of
Tombstone, Arizona, to police a depart-ment run amok. He discovers corruption
in a Western town where honesty is considered a character defect. Two of his
four deputies are shot to death in their autos. Murders covered as Cochise
County suicides."
Lieutenant Colonel Max Hurlbut
is the author of Vagabond Policeman.
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